Music: After Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini had a birthday last week, and as usual refused to take
the slightest formal notice of the event. On his 87th birthday, when he
was scheduled to rehearse his NBC orchestra, he stayed home and let a
visitor take his placeand newspapers suggested that it was, among
other things, the Maestro's way of avoiding congratulations from his
musicians.

But the visiting conductor, who led the NBC Symphony in its broadcast
this week, was the brilliant conductor of the Boston Symphony,
Alsace-born Charles Munch (TIME, Dec. 19, 1949). And Munch's visit
to Manhattan was something more than the Maestro's way...